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News, Reviews, Thoughts and Trends in Linux and Open Source World.Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:16:53 +0000en-UShourly1Decentralization, Scalability, and Fault Tolerance of Bitcoinhttp://linewbie.com/2015/01/decentralization-scalability-and-fault-tolerance-of-bitcoin.html
http://linewbie.com/2015/01/decentralization-scalability-and-fault-tolerance-of-bitcoin.html#commentsTue, 13 Jan 2015 03:48:38 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=751Posted by Stan Larimer & Daniel Larimer on January 12, 2015.
Bitcoin is all about decentralizing the control over money through objective consensus on ownership. What often gets lost in the discussion is the difference between decentralization, scalability, and fault tolerance. Bitcoin is an example of a decentralized system whose scalability is limited by the power of an individual node rather than the combined power of all nodes. This means that a system’s ability to become distributed for fault tolerance, decentralized for control, and scalable for performance are not linked together by the number of nodes. In fact we could say that attempts to combine these roles via the same mechanism will carry with it the combined limitations rather than the combined benefits. Hence economies of scale and free market competition will tend to minimize unnecessary fault tolerance (redundancy) while centralizing for performance. If we are not careful this will result in centralization of control.When the BitShares developers get a little uppity, I love to remind them that what they are doing is not exactly rocket science.But, while trying to find a way to communicate the architecture of BitShares to folks on other forums, I’ve stumbled on the following description, drawing on my past experience with continuously reconfiguring fault-tolerant flight control systems. (Yes I wrote a technical report with that title back before there was an Internet or even a word processor.) See if you buy this way of describing the BitShares architecture:

We tend to get three different attributes mixed up causing endless confusion even among men of good will.

Throughput Scalability

Fault Tolerance

Decentralized Control

These are three different concepts.

Fault Tolerance

We are saying 101 highly-reliable, tested and proven, hand-picked parts dispersed across the globe and selected by the entire owner population is sufficient redundancy to achieve reliable fault tolerance. The only thing those parts can do is – do their job to spec. We can observe their performance and swap them out in ten seconds if they don’t perform to spec. So, really, they are just interchangeable slave machines. Producing the blocks is a mindless task.

Selecting which parts make up the machine is where the power lies.

Decentralized Control

The total decentralized population of the all owners participate in selecting the most reliable machines to run the network. Those 101 parts have no power over the owners. 101 dispersed redundant parts is a decentralization red herring! That’s not where control lies. Those 101 chosen nodes can be completely reconfigured or replaced by the fully decentralized participating owners in 10 seconds.

BitShares has decentralized p2p control
of a distributed, fault-tolerant computer
implementing an autonomous unmanned company
running a decentralized crypto currency exchange
which produces stable smart-coin products.

Throughput Scalability

Any of the 101 nodes can scale up by adding parallel machines, side chains, and a thousand inventions we haven’t dreamed of. When we get to a billion owners and need a thousand machines per node, we can do that. It will still be decentralized enough to ensure that the 101 (now bigger) parts that make up the distributed, fault-tolerant machine will perform their mindless slave jobs reliability – from positions scattered across 24 time zones.

Those million decentralized owners do not want to have to think about managing more than 101 redundant parts to their machine. 101 is plenty, maybe too many, for the average owner to keep track of how they are performing. Adding more parts reduces the degree to which each part can be vetted and therefore reduces the system’s reliability. Total reliability is a combination of node redundancy and node reliability via reputation-based vetting.

In BitShares, absolute control is fully decentralized down to the votes of every single atomic BTS satoshi. You can’t get more decentralized than that.

Bytemaster’s Conclusions

At the end of the day it is all about decentralization of influence. It doesn’t matter that everyone is theoretically able to enter the lottery to gain the honor to produce a block if the same people win the lottery the majority of the time. Economies of scale will always force systems toward centralization via the removal of unnecessary redundancy in order to compete in the free market. Absent a means of delegating block producing influence to another party, any proof-of-something system will tend to deny small players any influence.

Bitcoin & Nxt both support delegation of influence through mining pools and leased forging. Bitcoin and all of the alt-coins have proven that left to its own devices the market will realistically support no more than 10 pools. As the network scales block producers will be competing to lower fees. This inevitably means placing their full nodes in locations with cheap bandwidth and computers optimized for signature verification and database speeds. Users of the network will eventually start creating transactions with fees lower than would be profitable for any unspecialized block producer to process. It just isn’t worth the time, money, and effort for companies to run a block producing node at scale.

Nxt leasing and Bitcoin mining pools will ultimately result in fewer than a dozen organizations producing over 51% of all blocks within the confirmation window. I did a random sampling of Nxt block producers and in a matter of minutes identified 10 people who have collectively produced 30% of all blocks in Nxt history. At this rate I could likely find that 51% of blocks being produced by fewer than 40 people. There may be over 300 people participating, but the vast majority of blocks are produced by a small minority.

What we learn from this is that we must decentralize control with a different mechanism than we achieve fault tolerance. It is more important to have decentralized control over who produces blocks than to have no control over who produces blocks. If token holders don’t control who produces blocks, then centralized block producers will control who owns the tokens.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2015/01/decentralization-scalability-and-fault-tolerance-of-bitcoin.html/feed0Stripe will soon accept Bitcoin paymentshttp://linewbie.com/2014/04/stripe-will-soon-accept-bitcoin-payments.html
http://linewbie.com/2014/04/stripe-will-soon-accept-bitcoin-payments.html#commentsSun, 20 Apr 2014 14:53:51 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=739Online payments company Stripe will soon allow its customers, who use its payments tools to accept credit card purchases online, to accept bitcoin payments as well, its CEO told Re/code on Wednesday evening. Stripe believes it is the first major online payments platform to support purchases made in bitcoin.

Up to now, Stripe merchants that wanted to accept bitcoin as a payment method would have to integrate with bitcoin-specific processors such as Coinbase or Bitpay.

Stripe will start supporting bitcoin payments through a private beta program that its customers can sign up for. Tarsnap, an online backup service, is the first Stripe customer to integrate the bitcoin payment option.

Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison said the decision to build an integration for bitcoin payments is more about the company’s mission to increase the amount of commerce transacted online than it is a bet that bitcoin will be a crucial payment method years from now.

“We acknowledge that bitcoin is important today … it may or may not be important in five years,” he said. “No matter what happens,” he added, “multiple payment instruments will be important.”

To that end, Collison said Stripe is also currently building support for ACH, which allows businesses to automatically collect payments from a customer’s bank account. And last month, Stripe said its customers could start accepting payments in 135 new currencies.

Collison said his company has had a “positive disposition to bitcoin” because it is solving “the problems we care about.”

Chief among them is the difficulty for people in one part of the world to buy goods or services from another part of the globe, especially if they don’t have a credit card.

“Universality is the big one for me,” he said. “Bitcoin is something that anyone can get ahold of.”

Merchants who decide to use Stripe to accept bitcoin payments will automatically be paid out in the local currency of their choice. They set the price for their product or service in a local currency and Stripe automatically calculates for their customers what that will cost in bitcoin.

Payments will arrive in their bank accounts in seven days or fewer. Neither Stripe nor its customers will hold onto the bitcoin, meaning the businesses that accept bitcoin will not be subject to the volatility of its price. Collison said his company is working with a variety of undisclosed partners to exchange the bitcoin into local currency in near real time.

Stripe hasn’t yet decided what it will charge its customers for bitcoin transactions, but will do so before it completes the beta program, according to Collison. Stripe usually charges its customers a 2.9 percent fee plus 30 cents on each credit card transaction it processes. Bitcoin processors typically charge around one percent.

Stripe, which has raised $120 million in investments, counts popular startups such as Instacart and Lyft among its thousands of customers. Collison said he believes there is “pretty significant demand” among its customer base for bitcoin acceptance.

While Stripe’s big-name competitors PayPal, Braintree and Authorize.net do not currently offer native support for bitcoin payments, a smaller competitor called Balanced has launched a beta integration with Coinbase to allow its customers to accept bitcoin.

We wanted to share with the r/bitcoin community that Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is now conducting a Bitcoin test with BitPay (https://bitpay.com/[1] ), a leading Bitcoin service provider, in select Zynga.com web games.
In response to Bitcoin’s rise in popularity around the world, Zynga, with help from BitPay, is testing expanded payment options for players to make in-game purchases using Bitcoin. The Bitcoin test is only available to Zynga.com players playing FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. The games can be accessed at http://zynga.com[2] .

Zynga is always working to improve our customer experience by incorporating player feedback into our games. We look forward to hearing from our players about the Bitcoin test so we can continue in our efforts to provide the best possible gaming experience.

Check out the test and let us know your thoughts.

Thank you!

Zynga

Some new ground broken in the world of Bitcoin: gaming giant Zynga has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. It makes Zynga the first major gaming company to accept Bitcoin.

Zynga posted the news first on Reddit rather than release an official announcement. It is calling this a “test”, being run in partnership with BitPay — the startup backed by the likes of the Founders Fund and Li Ka-shing that is vying to be the “PayPal of the Bitcoin world.”

“We wanted to share with the r/bitcoin community that Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is now conducting a Bitcoin test with BitPay (https://bitpay.com/), a leading Bitcoin service provider, in select Zynga.com web games,” Zynga wrote in a post on Reddit.

“In response to Bitcoin’s rise in popularity around the world, Zynga, with help from BitPay, is testing expanded payment options for players to make in-game purchases using Bitcoin. The Bitcoin test is only available to Zynga.com players playing FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. The games can be accessed at http://zynga.com.

“Zynga is always working to improve our customer experience by incorporating player feedback into our games. We look forward to hearing from our players about the Bitcoin test so we can continue in our efforts to provide the best possible gaming experience.

We have tried buying tokens for the games ourselves and confirm that Bitcoin is coming up as an option in the UK — meaning that it’s likely that this is a global rollout.

We have reached out to Zynga to ask whether it plans to extend this to other games — namely those on mobile and its real-money gambling effort, currently live in the UK.

On the mobile front, considering that Zynga has a huge business on iOS devices, this could prove problematic, considering that Apple has recently shown that it is not in support of Bitcoin transactions.

Up to now, Bitcoin has not made much headway in the world of gaming, although it is seeing some traction in online gambling, where one Bitcoin-wielding player netted a $1.3 million win on one bitcoin-based gambling site.

One of the attractive points about Bitcoin compared to more established currencies and payment platforms is that transaction fees tend to be lower than those of platforms that transact in more established currencies like dollars.

The deal is a nice coup for BitPay, which in December said it had processed $100 million in transactions in 2013. The startup has largely grown on the back of partnerships with merchants to process payments for things like electronics, precious metals, “and other low-margin products.” These merchants, the company has said, see “a large increase in profitability by accepting bitcoin payments.”

That should come as good news for Zynga, which is focused on cutting costs while it grows revenues. The company was once a rising star riding on the back of big social gaming hits that people played via Facebook. More recently, it’s fallen on harder times with a massive drop in users — its last quarterly report noted that daily active users were halved to 30 million compared to a year ago — as consumers flock to newer casual games and newer experiences from other publishers like King.com and Supercell.

The company has been trying hard to shore up its business and recover, appointing Microsoft veteran Don Mattrick as its CEO, laying off staff, and shuttering unprofitable games. In that vein, adding Bitcoin acceptance may not translate into billions more revenue, but it could give the company a little burnish of good PR among investors for being an early mover and innovator, and a boost of credibility among bitcoiners who might come to the platform as a result.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2013/11/how-to-import-very-large-sql-dump-via-phpmyadmin.html/feed0How to compare the content of two folders automaticallyhttp://linewbie.com/2013/02/how-to-compare-the-content-of-two-folders-automatically.html
http://linewbie.com/2013/02/how-to-compare-the-content-of-two-folders-automatically.html#commentsWed, 06 Feb 2013 19:20:58 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=679Many of us end up, inevitably, with so many files and folders that it is impossible to keep them under control without some specialized help. Luckily, as I’ll show you in a moment, under Linux there are several, very efficient solutions to this problem.

Multiple copies of many files, scattered all over the computer, waste space, create confusion, and slow down desktop indexers like DocFetcher. I have already explained how to find and remove the unwanted extra copies here.

When it comes time to clean up your folders and files, a common problem crops up: how can I find where duplicate files and folders exist between multiple directories? The problem is both more complex and much more common than it may appear at first sight. A directory may contain many, many levels of sub-directories, each with thousands of files of all sorts. Trying to figure out manually the differences between two directory trees like those could take days.
One reason why you need to know the differences between directories is so you can ensure that all your backups are working as expected! What if the automated backup procedure you run every day has a bug? What if a sector of the external drive(s), DVDs, or remote computer to which you continuously copy all your precious folders suddenly (and silently) broke? Would you notice it before actually needing those backups? This is the main reason to be able to quickly find out if the contents of two folders differ. Let’s see how to make this easy.
Automatic comparison

It is important to be able to run certain checks automatically from a shell script. Especially if all you want is a quick yes or no answer and automatic notifications. Here are a few command line utilities that you may use as a basis for scripts that perform such checks. You may then run those scripts either as automatic cron jobs, or whenever you feel like checking if that DVD or external drive is still free from errors.
find

This pipe of commands:

find $FOLDER -type f | cut -d/ -f2- | sort > /tmp/file_list_$FOLDER

will save in /tmp/file_list_$FOLDER an alphabetically ordered list of all the files inside $FOLDER, complete with the corresponding sub-folders, e.g. something like this:

family/health_insurance.pdf

family/holiday_quote.pdf

pictures/2012/graduation.jpg

work/linux-review.odt

Running the pipe on more directories and comparing the corresponding file lists will not find all the differences between them. You will only spot missing files, or folders containing sets of files with different names. Files with the same names and in the same subfolders, but with different content, will not show in the lists. Still, this may be a very quick way to spot certain mismatches.
diff

Diff is normally used to compare two files, but can do much more than that. The options “r” and “q” make it work recursively and quietly, that is, only mentioning differences, which is just what we are looking for:

marco #> diff -rq todo_orig/ todo_backup/

Only in todo_orig/essays: Digital-Citizenship-tech4engage-summit-report.pdf

As you can see, all the differences between two directory trees appear, be they files only present in one of them, or files that are different. Even files that, like “led_driver”, are present in both folders but don’t really exist, because they are links to other files that were canceled, are listed. Counting the number of lines generated by such an invocation of diff shows immediately if the two trees differ, as in this pseudo Bash code:

DIFF_NUM=`diff -rq $DIR_1 $DIR_2 | wc -l`

if [ “$DIFF_NUM” -gt “0” ]

do

# send me an email listing all the differences

done

rsync

Rsync can produce a difference report that you may parse and use in the same way as the one from diff:

marco #>rsync -rvnc –delete todo_sync/ todo_orig/

sending incremental file list

deleting essays/Digital-Citizenship-tech4engage-summit-report.pdf

copyright/copyright_licensing.t2t

skipping non-regular file “embedded_linux/init.d/led_driver”

strider/food/backpacking_food.t2t

sent 148763 bytes received 473 bytes 27133.82 bytes/sec

total size is 854518613 speedup is 5725.95 (DRY RUN)

The four command line switches r, v, c and n tell rsync (check the man page for details) to perform a verbose, recursive, checksum-based synchronization of the two directories, but only for show: -n, in fact, displays what rsync would do IF you did let it free to make the second folder a perfect copy of the first one. The huge advantage of rsync over rdiff is that the former can compare local directories with remote ones.

Author info:

Marco Fioretti is a freelance writer and teacher whose work focuses on open digital technologies.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2013/02/how-to-compare-the-content-of-two-folders-automatically.html/feed1Top 5 reasons to start experimenting with Linuxhttp://linewbie.com/2012/11/top-5-reasons-to-start-experimenting-with-linux.html
http://linewbie.com/2012/11/top-5-reasons-to-start-experimenting-with-linux.html#commentsWed, 14 Nov 2012 21:27:52 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=653In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen the announcement or release of a number of new products: the iPad Mini, an updated version of the full-size iPad, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Surface tablet.

A lot less attention was paid to the October 18 release of one of the most widely-used Linux distributions, Ubuntu. That’s unfortunate, because Linux in its various flavors is a solid operating system. It’s even used by such major companies as Google on both their servers and their desktops.
That said, my aim in this post is not to review the latest Ubuntu release or to rave about the benefits of Linux over other operating systems. Instead, I’d like to offer a few reasons why it may be worth your while to explore and experiment with Linux, even if you don’t intend for it to become your primary OS.

It works on older hardware. If you’ve got an older, mostly discarded machine (PC or Mac, it really doesn’t matter) that you’re not quite sure what to do with, Linux can give it new life. You might, for instance, use a Linux installation to turn an older desktop machine into a media center.

It’s highly customizable. As with other operating systems, it’s possible to customize Linux to look (and, to a point, work) just the way you’d like. Don’t like the desktop environment that’s the default for your preferred distribution? No problem—just install another. There are plenty of applications for Linux, too. Though it’s true you won’t always be able to find a Linux version of software you’re used to using on Windows or OS X, odds are very good you’ll be able to find something that does the same thing.

Tinkering with it provides an opportunity to learn. When I first started playing with Linux a few years ago, even Ubuntu wasn’t as user-friendly as a lot of distributions are now. Even installing software was a challenge for someone not already familiar with the process. So I had to do some serious searching (especially in the Ubuntu forums) and experimenting to get things working the way I wanted. In the process, I learned a fair bit about (a) how to find the information I needed, (b) how the Ubuntu distribution works, and (c) how to use the command line.

There’s a variety of distributions. Fortunately, Ubuntu has become much easier for most people to install and use, as have other distributions such as Mint and Pinguy OS. Other distributions, such as Arch Linux, offer greater customizability, but definitely aren’t for Linux beginners. There’s even a distribution called Uberstudent that’s specifically designed for students. (I reviewed version 1.0 a few years ago; version 2.0 is due out very soon).

It’s free to download and to use. You can’t really argue with the cost of Linux. The more user-friendly versions are quite easy to install, too. (Users trying to install Linux on a Mac lacking an internal DVD drive may run into difficulties. In that case, it’s best to just install Linux in VirtualBox or other virtualization software.) In most instances, it’s simply a matter of downloading the distribution and putting it on a bootable DVD (or USB drive), then booting the computer from the device and following the on-screen prompts.

Have you given Linux a try? If so, which distribution(s) did you use, and what were your impressions? Let us know in the comments!

Originally posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education. Reposted with permission.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2012/11/top-5-reasons-to-start-experimenting-with-linux.html/feed0The day our mind became open sourcedhttp://linewbie.com/2012/04/the-day-our-mind-became-open-sourced.html
http://linewbie.com/2012/04/the-day-our-mind-became-open-sourced.html#commentsThu, 26 Apr 2012 15:05:34 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=634I will remember therefore clearly the precise day my personal mind became open sourced. It had been a sharp and sun-drenched November day time in 1973. Following class within middle college, I known as up my closest friend, Bruce The nike jordan, and requested, “Can We come to play right now? ” Bruce responded, “Sure. inch I leaped on my personal red, one-speed Schwinn bike and biked such as mad both miles to Bruce’s home. I showed up happily breathless.

Bruce had been fun in order to play along with because he or she was continuously inventing brand new games in order to play, each indoors as well as outdoors. There is never the dull second at Bruce’s home. So whenever we sat right down to play Scrabble which day, Bruce automatically suggested: “Let’s every take 10 letters instead of 7. Which will improve the overall game play a great deal. ” We protested, “But the guidelines on the actual box from the game say that you are supposed to consider 7 characters. “
Bruce rapidly replied, “Those are not rules printed about the box. Individuals are advised rules. You as well as I are liberated to improve all of them. ” We was somewhat stunned. I’d never heard this idea prior to. “But aren’t the guidelines on the actual box compiled by adults who’re much wiser than all of us? ” We protested.

Bruce breezily described, “The individuals who invented this particular game tend to be no wiser than a person or We, even although they’re grown ups. We can develop better rules with this game compared to they do. Much much better rules. inch

I had been still a little skeptical–until Bruce stated, “Listen, if this particular game isn’t much more fun within the first 5 minutes, we’ll return to playing the overall game with the guidelines on the actual box. ” Which sounded just like a smart method to proceed.

Affirmed, Bruce’s guidelines for Scrabble made the overall game far more enjoyable to perform. Mid-way via, I could not help however ask him or her, “If the guidelines for Scrabble could be improved, can the guidelines for additional games additionally be enhanced? “

Bruce responded, “The rules for those games could be improved. Not just that, everything the thing is around you on the planet designed through the human thoughts, it all could be improved. Everything could be improved. inch

Upon listening to these phrases, a thunderbolt handed through my personal mind. Within a couple of seconds, my mind have been open sourced. I understood my life’s objective and destiny immediately and after that: to browse around for what could end up being improved, after which improve this.

When We mounted my personal Schwinn bike to trip home which evening, my personal mind had been intoxicated along with ideas as well as possibilities. I’d learned much more from Bruce The nike jordan on which day i quickly learned within an entire 12 months of college. Twenty-five years prior to the phrase “open source” will be coined, Bruce The nike jordan open sourced my personal mind. I’m permanently grateful in order to him for your.

And when i rode house that night, I solved that during my life I’d focus my personal energies upon expanding understanding opportunities beyond school, because sometimes probably the most meaningful understanding and realizations happen beyond school wall space. Today I work on a open public library within the Washington, DC region, and every single day I talk to elementary as well as middle college students who visit to state hello. Every now and then I’ll encounter students in whose mind is actually receptive in order to big suggestions. When that occurs, I grow small seeds within their mind as well as send them on the way. It’s as much as them in order to cultivate individuals seeds. My role would be to plant seed products of ideas within their minds. Their role would be to watch individuals seeds germinate and also to choose in order to either drinking water them or even not drinking water them.

I learned another important training from Bruce The nike jordan. That exact same year, he requested me basically wanted in order to play Frisbee Football. “What’s Frisbee Football? ” We asked strangely enough. Bruce clarified, “I have no idea, but it seems like a excellent game. We’ll constitute the guidelines while walking to the football diamond. inch

Sure sufficient, Bruce invented the guidelines to Frisbee Football while all of us sauntered within the one block towards the baseball gemstone. And all of us played which game along with great pleasure until we’re able to barely begin to see the Frisbee at night sky. What We learned through Bruce which day was to become not scared of strolling forward whenever your gut lets you know something excellent lies forward. Bruce had been utterly confident that people were going to possess a grand period playing Frisbee Football. And all of us did.

Open source is really a software motion, but it is also much a lot more than that. It’s a confident way of taking a look at every human-made item and concept. Everything could be improved. It may all end up being improved. All that is required is actually some creativity along with a willingness to use your mind towards the task.

Let’s provide it a go. The unique rules for each game tend to be printed about the box, but individuals rules are simply suggested guidelines. They’re improvable and needs to be improved whenever you can.

Phil Shapiro
(Bruce The nike jordan currently life in Moorestown, NEW JERSEY, with their wife as well as two kids, ages 11 as well as 8. His children love using their really silly father and their wife Martha has arrived at understand which Bruce is definitely full associated with happy surprises. Those fascinated can adhere to Phil Shapiro’s innovative projects about this new weblog. Many, although not all, tasks are open source. Phil is actually reachable from pshapiro@his.com and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro).

He has received huge ideas regarding Canonical and also he has wanting to fix a more impressive difficulty: can easily a great available resource business generate income when that constantly offers the computer software apart at no cost and only fees regarding other stuff?
“We’re significantly more compact as compared to Reddish Head wear and also our own product is quite diverse. We all distribute cost-free the application in which Reddish Head wear would certainly demand regarding. Thus their particular product will be similar to a normal private computer software product, inches this individual advised Enterprise Insider.
Keep on Under

Contacting Reddish Head wear “proprietary” is similar to any “yo mamma” slander in the open resource planet. For your document, Reddish Head wear Linux computer software can be acquired at no cost. The business fees dues for many help which includes safety revisions. Ubuntu won’t demand regarding revisions yet markets dues regarding technical support.

Yet Shuttleworth just isn’t specifically wanting to develop one more Reddish Head wear. This individual desires to develop one more The apple company.

This past year Canonical developed a fresh Apple-like graphical user interface for your pc model regarding Ubuntu referred to as Unity and also he has recently been by using an Apple-like rotate from the time.

“Our interactions together with suppliers are usually paid out interactions. We all promote countless Personal computers together with H . P ., Lenovo, Dell, Asus, Acer. We all expect you’ll to be able to dispatch near 20 thousand Personal computers next yr, inches this individual advised us all.

Yet hold out, there is certainly a lot more!

Canonical introduced a great iTunes knock-off audio program referred to as UbuntuOne.

UbuntuOne furthermore contains record syncing, photograph and also report safe-keeping, just like iCloud.

This individual claims he has conversing with TV SET suppliers to make Ubuntu TV SET and also desires to offer the initial product for sale in of a yr.

He has taking care of articles bargains regarding motion pictures as well as other articles

Any capsule will be around the roadmap right after Ubuntu TV SET. Unity is create regarding feel gadgets.

“The perspective is always to have got this kind of seamless knowledge coming from cell phone, capsule, TV SET, notebook. Exactly where you get articles it is possible to buyer that somewhere else, inches Shuttleworth identifies.

Yet Canonical hasn’t already entirely given up on the particular venture, both. Reddish Head wear could be the favored yet Shuttleworth brought on any blend previous calendar month any time this individual confirmed just how Ubuntu will be very popular about Net computers as compared to Reddish Head wear. Companies can easily previously develop exclusive atmosphere together with Ubuntu and also utilize these kinds of together with Amazon online marketplace as well as other fog up suppliers, also.

Shuttleworth could be the keynote presenter with LinuxCon The european union this kind of tumble in which he will probably make an effort to encourage the particular Linux loyal exactly why his / her assist Canonical needs to be lauded up to Reddish Hat’s. Which will be a difficult promote. Although they will just like the Ubuntu computer software, Shuttleworth in addition has ticked these away from. The business won’t add the maximum amount of returning to the essential Linux computer software since other folks carry out.

Shuttleworth protects this kind of simply by declaring it really is surrounding inside alternative methods. It really is creating Ubuntu less difficult regarding buyers and possesses hopped directly into aid the particular Linux Base assist Android os. This individual recognizes his / her function since creating Linux very popular. If possible since well-known since The apple company.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2012/04/mark-shuttleworth-wants-to-turn-canonical-ubuntu-into-the-next-apple-inc.html/feed4Java Application Development on Linux – Free 599 Page eBookhttp://linewbie.com/2012/03/java-application-development-on-linux-free-599-page-ebook.html
http://linewbie.com/2012/03/java-application-development-on-linux-free-599-page-ebook.html#commentsThu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:08 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=614Linux is the fastest-growing Java development platform because it saves money and time by serving as a platform for both development and deployment. But developers face significant platform-specific challenges when managing and deploying Java applications in a controlled production environment.

Written for Java and Linux developers alike, Java™ Application Development on Linux® is the hands-on guide to the full Java application development lifecycle on Linux.

]]>http://linewbie.com/2012/03/java-application-development-on-linux-free-599-page-ebook.html/feed3Running Netflix App on Linux in 2012http://linewbie.com/2012/03/running-netflix-app-on-linux-in-2012.html
http://linewbie.com/2012/03/running-netflix-app-on-linux-in-2012.html#commentsMon, 12 Mar 2012 13:52:49 +0000http://linewbie.com/?p=610Have you got a Roku which you view Netflix? Would you watch Netflix on the Mac? If you are, you might be using either the actual Linux operating-system or perhaps a closely associated “*Nix” operating-system. (Mac’s operate on a kind of OPERATING SYSTEM this provides the same standard system because Linux*)

Still when you run Linux on a more regular computer, weight loss watch Netflix movies, as possible with Windows or perhaps a Mac. The reason why? My knowing could be that the individuals who own and handle Netflix, bless their own pointy minds, believe that when they released a Apache version involving Netflix, Apache “hackers” would bust throughout the DRM protection plans and everybody could watch Netflix free of charge.
Like Shawn Powers offers mentioned numerous times, they have perhaps that in reverse. The truth is, in the event that Netflix is constantly on the diss the Cpanel Community, there is absolutely no telling what to you suppose will happen. Ultimately, Cpanel “hackers” will learn how to show Netflix by themselves computers. Whenever that occurs, this can imply that Linux-using Netflix readers can watch the way they are spending money on by themselves desktop and laptops like Windows customers can. However it may also imply that Linux users can easily use a Netflix Watcher that could not make use of little details such as set up service is purchased. Basically, it may be possible some time for Linux customers to kind:

sudo apt-get WatchNetflixForFree

and a few minutes offer an app attached to their computer which will simply draw Netflix of most it’s DRM’ed pieces and octet. Free of charge. From revenge. Focus on dissed.

We how to start which of the scenarios will happen, however it could be the case that the important step is going on with this path. (Hat Suggestion Mike)

There is task management to increase funds to pay for a bounty for the functioning Netflix software for Cpanel. The guidelines require how the application be lawful. Which is good. I really hope it really is created and that i hope it really is legal. However you already know in addition to I actually do that movement in direction of the creating a legal Linux structured Netflix streaming software can lead to the introduction of technology that may be used intend to, in order to plain take what exactly is currently owned by simply Netflix.

As well as, given like personal computers operate, it could be simple enough, I believe, to set up the required software on any kind of Windows machine to operate the “Steal the actual Netflix Bits as well as Bytes” app as well as run this. Minimally, you might simply any key disk or even CD based duplicate of Linux watching movies free of charge on any pc or laptop, however it would possibly be much easier than which.,

I might personally oppose which and that i would not utilize it. I actually do not sign up for the concept when you can easily steal some thing (like movies or even musi), which stealing that would be therefore honest, maybe even morally needed. Napster was obviously a low justification in a brief history of private software, i think. But I am only one person. The actual “WatchNetflixForNothin” app might be possible, plus a mixture of Netflix misreading the actual Linux Community and also the actuality this is both insulting as well as potentially “fixable” can result in free films for all those who care in order to type that range I cite over, or something similar to it as being a truth.

I suppose Netflix will eventually arrive at be aware of error of corporate methods, and create a Linux Netflix Software.

At the same time, you might have the choice of applying stress. Give it a look: Netflix upon Linux Competition.

I believed the Linux bar by Netflix has been probably as a result of deal they have got with Microsoft as well as Silverlight. Additionally, the actual Netflix TOP DOG, Reed Hastings, is actually about the board of owners for Ms -at least having been.

Obviously the Silverlight constraint is not a strict one. Despite the fact that it’s leaned upon heavily with Home windows apps, it’s not with Google android, Roku, as well as Google OPERATING SYSTEM.

I did previously possess a television using a group of output jacks that could let me record anything it could possibly see on the VHS strapping. Constantly imagine such tvs aren’t still offered. The product quality probably isn’t great, but not are Netflix avenues if you get into it -that’s the reason why they stream perfectly. So I am just a little skeptical from the hacking reason. I believe this really is more related to Microsoft’s distaste with regard to Linux and also the tremendous strides droit like Ubuntu make during the last couple of years in creating a good OS which is more steady, more pleasant, and more reliable in its results and keep than Home windows.

Be cautious which pointy brains you bless — a lot of them are Ms. Netflix internet is really a partnership among Netflix and Ms, with MICROSOFT providing Silverlight to the player as well as DRM. We doubt Netflix is within a situation to see the linux local community with no lawsuit equivalent of the headshot from Ms at this stage.

We you do not have the chops to learn if the linux community might make a conclusion run round the DRM (Silverlight by itself was addressed by simply Moonlight/Mono), however I believe MS would device up and spin the actual Playready DRM in reply, then the arms ethnic background will be upon.

However at that time, the majority of Netflix’s old certification deals may have go out. And also the new licensing offers Big Content indications tend to be, a lot, a lot more stingy. A few years from at this point Netflix streaming might have shrunk a lot it does not matter which OS is actually serving upward, it merely requires isn’t worth every penny anymore. Many people thought that’s already occurred.

That raises the service which works with cpanel: Hulu.

The only method Hulu might get the rights in order to stream lots of Hulu (free) as well as some Hulu+ content material was with certification terms that essentially state: “No a single hooks their pc as much as their TELEVISION, correct? inch. Hulu(free) has been built about the conceit that individuals just watch this on the laptops. Because more people slot it for their TVs such as Netflix internet streaming, the greater the networks can limit the information they provide into it. Hulu+, half it anyhow, could be the items that Big Content is actually prepared to allow to become piped for your TV. Another half isn’t offered until you are streaming via a pc, while you are spending money for it.

A direct result which is that not one of the smart boxes or even game consoles permit Hulu (free); they may be only licensed to operate Hulu+. OrbTV arrives closest, however it is really a passthrough for the PC that really works Hulu. Anyone supply the PC, and also the wireless bandwidth in order to turn it on towards the Orb. You will find subscription services including Playon, however you might have another payment.

Therefore say you simply need cheap little package to flow Hulu(free) as well as Netflix for your TV. It will not appear to be excessive to inquire. You can find Netflix via a couple of different gaming systems, cell phones, boxees, Personal computers, what ever. You can find Hulu (free) about the cheapest free computer you are able to build/buy which is fast enough in order to decode the flow.